Miata Mailing List: October 1995, Message #129
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   From: Mac 
Subject: Jackson Racing 1.8L header has ARRIVED!
   Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 13:14:53 -0400

	Good news for you '94+ Miata owning speed freaks! Jackson
Racing has just released its 1.8L header. Mine just arrived today
via UPS.
	First Impression: It looks fantastic! The ceramic coating
is very cool, should provide a lot of protection and heat retention.
It is an equal tube lenght, tri-Y, increasing radius design. The
main tubes are very swoopy, much like the headers you see on a 
F-1 car. All the bends are done on a mandrel machine and are very
smooth. The flanges are thick CNC machined and one piece. The
header is also in 2 pieces to ease installation and the stock
exhaust system is 2 pieces. It looks like the main flange will exactly
fit the exhaust ports on the head. The primary tubes are welded
smoothly with those ports so it should be an extremely smooth
gas flow through this header with very little turbulence.
In a word I love it and can't wait to install it.
	I was also sent a catalog from Japan that has all kinds of
stuff in it. It is a "Eunos Only Roadster" "Road&Ster No.3"
catalog. Has nice pics, but it is all in Japanese! I have tried
everything, even holding the pring upside down and to a mirror,
I still cannot read it. You won't believe the number of extremely
ugly bodykits that are available for our little cars. But there 
are some very cool ones too! I count 40 different types of 
aftermarket exhaust systems in every different combination you
can think of. The Japanese even have their own version of the
sacred VooDoo Bob knob! For a mere 9,800 Yen. One of the neatest
things in teh catalog is a little bracket for the front license
plate that mounts it off to the side of the radiator opening that
is by Tuckin'99. They also seem to have some very nice strut tower
braces. Teh ugliest bodykit has got to be the one that makes the Miata
looks like an old TVR Griffith called the Pit Crew Roadster. The
most unusual 'Miata-like" body kit has got to be the one by Veil Side
called the Roadster Combat Model with a rear bat wing.
	Hey Jay, why is their a mixture of English and Japanese in
this catalog?
	So if you have a '94+ Miata you can now call Jackson Racing
or the Dealer Alternative and get another go-fast goody for your car.
I hear the Cold-Air kit will be available in a few weeks. There have
been lots of changes that had to be made to the 1.8L Cold-Air. None
of the parts from the 1.6L Cold-Air kit fit. Now that the header is
out of developement and into production Jackson will have more time
to devote to the Cold-Air.
				-Mac.
			'95 Montego Blue - Leather
			soon sportin' a cool new header